For that they had never petitioned for any of youi* Memorialist's Land but for Lands lying to the Eastward of his East Bounds Whence your Memorialist conceives that his said Tenants knew notliing of the said Petition, whereof he had obtained a Copy as abovesaid, but that it was a Contrivance of some unjust persons belonging to the said Massachusets Bay Colony to distress your Memorialist, by making use of his said Tenants names in order tlie more effectually to obtain tlieir'End with the Government of the Massachusets Bay Colony.

That after this your Memorialist informed the said Committee, that his patent extended nineteen miles and thirty Rods from Hudson's River into the Woods, (Wliich line of it? distance run

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from riudsuns Uiver tenninated in the Great Taqiiiinack Mountam) And pointing from the place where he then stood with the said Committee to the place where the said Line terminated, and running from thence with a com-se near South to Connecticut, which took in two thirds if not all the Lands contained in the petition of the said William Bull and otliers, and also told them that your Memorialists Ancestors had setled the same near seventy years ago And your Memorialist farther told the said Committee, tliat if they would accompany him Home he would shew tlicm his deeds, in order to convince tliem, if possible, of his Riglit, and afterwards desired the said Committee to inform the General Court of Massachusets Bay, of hh Title to the Lands, and that he hoped tliey would tliink it unreasonable to give your Memorialist any future disturbance.